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Speaker 1: Come in.

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Speaker 2: Welcome. I'm E. G.

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Speaker 3: Marshall, curator of this curious collection of the mysterious and

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the macabre. We are told that the Lord created man

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in his own image. Therefore it must follow that each

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of us is an image of the Lord. And since

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we are so various, so different in shape and size

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and color, you would think it presumptuous for any one

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person to say, behold, what I look like is the

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only true image of the Lord. And yet so many

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people do that very thing. Who is that man, ben

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im Oh.

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Speaker 4: Just one of my slaves, my houseboys, What a remarkable person?

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Remarkable hell, just an ordinary no account shift don't say that,

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but it's true.

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Speaker 2: I see a grandeur, a nobility.

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Speaker 4: You know, then, abolitionists, you keep seeing things that simply

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do not exist.

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Speaker 2: I tell you that young man will move mountain day.

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Speaker 4: Bob, You sure you ain't sick. It's all that boy

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can do to move his own two feet, will move mountains.

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That that slave of yours has the power inside of him,

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the awful power.

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Speaker 2: Ben, I can sense these things.

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Speaker 3: Our mystery drama for Black Whale was written especially for

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the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Brock Peters

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all men are created equal. However, some people have always

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considered themselves more equal than others. When our great Republic

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was founded, there were some people who weren't even considered

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people and had to do with the color of the skin.

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If yours was white, you were people. If your skin

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was black, you were a slave. You are nobody. Actually,

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a black person wasn't even considered a person except for

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the purposes of government record keeping, and since the state

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was represented in Congress according to population, a slave was

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listed as three.

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Speaker 2: Fifths of a person.

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Speaker 3: The years eighteen twenty, we are in what is destined

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one day to become the state of Texas. Colonel Benjamin Borders,

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a wealthy farmer is entertaining an old friend from the east.

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There is another person, or we should say a non

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person in the room. His name is Jim, one of

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the house slaves, and this is to be his own story.

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Speaker 2: All about me. The conversation swirled and Eddie, mister Robert

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Darcy was not one of the colonel's usual physiness. He

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was a man of learning and great education. How I

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ended him and I stood there listening, listening, because that

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man spoke of such fantastic things.

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Speaker 4: The power of the mind, Ben, The power of the

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mind can move mountains. So really, I'd said, up a

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more simple kind of proof. I'd like to see somebody's

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mind make that wine bottle lift itself up and pour

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its contents into my gat under proper conditions, the right

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kind of mind could do either. In speaking of wine,

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your glass is empty, Jim, Jim, Yes, sir, you will

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gather in again. Boy, No, sir, weren't you trained better

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than to leave a man's glass stand on field before him?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Well, Paul the wines.

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Speaker 4: Mister Darcy to die of a thirst in my house.

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Oh uh, man, I see you've been reading the books

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I sent you. Oh or no, Bob, I'm sorry to say,

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I ain't had a chance.

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Speaker 2: Somebody must have been reading the books.

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Speaker 4: The pages are well, nobody could read them, Bob, there's

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just been the slaves.

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Speaker 2: In the house here.

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Speaker 4: Well, do do any of your slaves read? He ain't serious, Bob,

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You can't be serious. How could a slave read? If

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he were taught, he could learn, just like anyone else.

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Up in New York Boston, I've met freed slaves who

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could read and write word.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well it was a trick a trick.

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Speaker 4: Or you could teach a parent to talk, can't you?

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Speaker 2: It's all a trick.

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Speaker 4: The young man who waited on us, Oh, Jim, he

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appears to be extremely intelligent for that shoesha, he's the

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dumbest one of all. There's a boy who just can't

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do nothing.

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Speaker 2: His mind seems to be on something else.

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Speaker 4: He's in another world, Ben, a world of his imagination,

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pure and simple woolgathering. Oh no, no, I send something

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else there?

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Speaker 2: You do? What power? The power to move mountains?

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Speaker 4: You?

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Speaker 2: All right, Bob? Poor boy, he's like a whale. A whale.

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Now the whales ever get into this?

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Speaker 4: There are those who claim the whale is the most

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intelligent living creature, honor. You don't care who you call intelligent,

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do you, Bob? First blacks and now whale?

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Speaker 2: What you see?

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Speaker 4: The whale is the captive of his physiology and his environment.

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He has no way to express his intelligence. He has

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no hands, he can't build, he can't live on land.

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He's a prisoner of the water. You're getting too deep

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from me, Bob. I'd like to help that young man.

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Speaker 2: Help him. Ou send him to college. College?

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Speaker 4: Oh, Bob, I believe you've gone bad, But don't worry.

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Speaker 2: I'm your friend. He'll keep your secret. And so it

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went the free and easy conversation. They disagreed on everything,

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but never lost their tempers, never came to blows. What

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a wonderful way to be able to talk, and how

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wonderful also to have things to talk about. Would I

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ever be able to talk like they did? Would I

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ever have anyone to talk to him?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 2: So what are you doing?

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Speaker 4: I'm supposed to cut wood for the fire?

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Speaker 2: Why do you say that?

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Speaker 4: Jim cos Massa say chop and I'm supposed. I know

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you were ordered to do it, but you could just

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as easily say I was supposed to cut wood for

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the fire, was Jim? Yes?

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Speaker 2: How did you learn to read? You can read, can't you? Jim?

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Don't be afraid of me.

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Speaker 4: The colonel has an excellent library.

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Speaker 2: I know I selected it for him.

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Speaker 4: However, he has neither the time nor the inclination to read.

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But I know someone has been reading those books.

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Speaker 5: Jim.

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Speaker 4: Ohoh you.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I was right. I sensed it.

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Speaker 4: There is something about the transference of thought. I knew

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you could read. Don't ask me how. It has to

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be miraculous? Who taught you to read no one. Then

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how did you learn?

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Speaker 2: It came to me the books, bound and bright red

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in rich brown leather. Something I don't know what drew

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me to the books.

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Speaker 4: Something seemed to say to me, come, Jim, come to

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the books.

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Speaker 2: What was it a voice? No, it was a desire.

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But the markings and the books were so mysterious, so hidden.

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Will they always be kept from me? I asked? And

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then I I saw a picture of a pistol, and

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there was the marking under it, and it was suddenly

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revealed to me this must be the marking, This must

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be the sign that signifies a pistol. Then I understood it.

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There is a sign, a word for everything. Jim.

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Speaker 4: That's remarkable, is it? It's amazing? What a fantastic accomplishment.

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Speaker 2: You should be so happy?

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Speaker 4: Why because you've achieved such a tremendous victory?

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Speaker 2: Have I? Or have I become a whale? Yes? I

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I have listened to what you said about whales? What

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good does my learning bring me? Like the whale? I

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can only founder aimlessly and endlessly to no purpose. What

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can I do? Where can I go? Jim? Jim, you

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come with me right now. But Massa says I suppose

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the chop.

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Speaker 4: Would I want to see the look on Ben Border's face.

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Speaker 2: You drop that axe and come with me. Once upon

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a time, the deep red berries of the mulberry tree

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were as white as snow. The change in color came

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about strangely and sadly. The death of two young lovers

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was the cards Pyramis, And thisby lived in Babylon, the

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city of Queen Samarana. Well, I'll be now.

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Speaker 4: Open another book, Jim, to any page, the theorem of Pythagoras.

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Speaker 2: It's a trick. Open this book, Jim, sweet are the

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uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,

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wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

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Speaker 4: I still say it's a trick that book, Jim. All right,

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all right now, dumbob, how are you doing this? Doing

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what I've seen in a theater once a fellow was

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able to throw his voice and make you think that

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someone else would speak, admit that you were wrong being

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about what about a great manything?

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Speaker 2: I still say it's some kind of trick. What are

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we going to do about, Jim Duba? A man with

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his brain?

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Speaker 4: Can you force him to live out his life as

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a beast of burden. Hang it, Bob, What am I

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supposed to do?

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Speaker 2: Sell him to me? You mean you a true.

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Speaker 4: Blue tie and a world northern abolitionist like you, you'd

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on a sleeve.

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Speaker 2: This is the time of great happening.

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Speaker 4: I want to buy him so I can take him

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north and set him free. Well, I ain't gonna let

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you go puffing and premium among your northern friends. Of

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our heart or the goodness of your heart. You spent

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eight hundred dollars to give a poor black soul his freedom.

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Speaker 2: You mean you won't sell you? No, I won't sell him.

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Why not?

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Speaker 4: Because I'm an honest man.

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Speaker 2: He ain't worth a nickel.

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Speaker 4: His value is just gone all the way down to

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absolute zero.

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 4: His head so full of pyramids and Thesby and Pythagori

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is and I don't know who and what all? How's

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he going to chopcutt in the whole corner? Wait on table,

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take take him for what he's worth? Now nothing, I

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could hardly delete it.

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Speaker 2: It was like a story in the Bible, and it

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came to pass. And now it had come to pass

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for me. I was to go north to freedom. Freedom

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soon that great day finally dawned when I could leave

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the farm in Slavery Forever, and I hit the horses

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to the carriage, as I had done so many times before,

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but this time I was going to ride in it too,

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And we started out for Santa Lucia, a small port

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on the Gulf of Mexico, where we could take a

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boat to New Orleans, and from thence to Saint Louis

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and Cincinnati and Pittsburgh and Philadelphia in New York and

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finally post those names, those great ringing names.

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Speaker 4: Is it much farther to Santa Lucia?

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Speaker 2: Ben for about two hours?

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Speaker 4: No, I guess it's a goodbye, good bye forever.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't know, Ben. We could say it's a.

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Speaker 4: Long, long trip and we neither of us grown younger.

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Speaker 2: Oh we're not.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad our friendship lasted, Bob. It's not everything. We

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remain friends, good friends. That's why I gave the gym

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for remember me by it.

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Speaker 2: Then what's that? A cloud of dust hoving very quickly

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toward us? Which men? Then I'm horses? Who are they soldiers? No?

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Speaker 4: No, uh, I'm afraid they look like bands.

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Speaker 2: Sandys.

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Speaker 4: There are Country's fool of him. I think they come

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so close to Saint Lucie. Well, what are we going

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to do.

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Speaker 2: Is not much.

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Speaker 4: What can't do, Bob, We can't outrun him, we can't

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outfight him. All we can do is wait. Oh, And

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we waited.

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Speaker 2: And as we stood there, motionless, and watched the cloud

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of dust grow larger, and heard the approaching thunder of

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horses hoofs, something bright and happy inside of me suddenly

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became dark and sad. I knew I wasn't going to

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be free. I wasn't going to Boston with mister Darcy.

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Because mister Darcy.

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Speaker 4: Had a gray look in his face, the look that

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people get just before.

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Speaker 3: They die, the look in the old days, they used

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to say a man who was about to die had

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a certain look on his face. It was supposed to

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be the soul getting ready to leave the body, the

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soul waiting for the moment of release. Is mister Darcy

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going to die?

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Speaker 2: Why? How?

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Speaker 3: And if he does, what will happen to Jim? Well,

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nothing will happen to anyone until I return in a

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few moments. With Act two, we are in Texas, long

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before Texas was a state in our union, even before

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Texas was an independent republic.

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Speaker 2: We're in the Texas that was still.

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Speaker 3: Part of Mexico, a vast wild country into which poured

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thousands of American settlers. And some of the wildness of

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this raw boned country is about to erupt.

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Speaker 4: Who are they been ill recognized? No, it's all that

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cale and as Let me do all the talk. They

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only want money, so just do.

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Speaker 2: As your talk? How tall? Where senors Allacane? What can

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I do here?

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Speaker 4: I am not Senors Allacane, I am now General Zacad.

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Speaker 2: Well, congratulation.

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Speaker 4: Yes, we are revolutionists. We will overthrow the government one day,

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and so we would like.

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Speaker 2: You to contribute to the revolution. Do I have a choice,

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you bloody scoundrel.

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Speaker 4: If you weren't such an old friend, I would cut

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your heart out, all your money into the eye and yours,

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you know, empty your pockets, Bob, And you watch the

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w you watch, but the watch, it would have very

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little value to you, and it has a great deal

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of sentimental value to me.

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Speaker 2: You watch, sir, Let me explain. Don't argue with him,

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give him the voute.

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Speaker 4: But then Lisa gave me this before she died.

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Speaker 2: Let me explained to you.

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Speaker 4: So why idea I didn't know what while your blood

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to sarnimal action.

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Speaker 2: And only took a second. My dream was shattered and

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in ruins. Mister Darcy was dead. Colonel Borders was lying

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on the ground. I'm conscious with a bullet wound.

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Speaker 4: Somehow I managed to get them both into the wagon

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and I turned the team around.

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Speaker 2: And drove slowly home home. I dared to dream of

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becoming an eagle, but in reality I was still away.

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Several months went by and and finally Colonel Borders recovered

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from his wound, and he wasn't the same. Something seemed

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to have left him. Never mentioned mister Darcy's name until

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one morning. But Jim, yes, sir, where'd they bury mister

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Darcy in Santilucia? Jim? What did mister Darcy do to you?

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Do to me? Sir? Yeah? Jim? How how did he

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get you to read through all of the books?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: What was the trick? Oh? W it was no trick,

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will Betty.

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Speaker 4: I'll bet he hypnotized you, No, sir, uh, I bet

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you don't even know what it all means.

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Speaker 2: I have read the monograph published by F. A. Mesmer. Whoever,

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That's enough, Colonel, Please, you promised mister Darcy, you'd set

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me free. I promised no such thing. I promised to

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say you to him for nothing. Well, that's the same thing.

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Speaker 4: And he was my best friend, my only friend. He

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wants you to be free, and I I'll see that

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you do go free. But but not, No, I can't

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do it.

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Speaker 2: Now. Why why you questioned me? You dare question me.

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Speaker 4: I'll give you your answer with a horse weaper.

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Speaker 2: Jim, Jim, is it true? Is what true? Is it true?

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You can read and write? Yes, then you gotta help me.

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Now open up that chest with my papers in it.

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That's it. Now, Now you're gonna have to You're gonna

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have to take care of that because I uh, I can't.

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Speaker 4: Seem to concentrate the words, numbers, they they just dance

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on the paper.

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Speaker 2: You gotta help me, Jim, you gotta help me. It

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was the first time a white man had ever asked

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me to do something. I knew what it was to

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be told, to be asked help was something else, something strange,

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and knew. I kept his records, I wrote his letters,

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and every day he became richer and richer, and every

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day I would ask him the same question, Colonel, when

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will you give me my freedom.

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Speaker 4: Freedom you promised me. Yeah, yeah, well it's my attention

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to give you your freedom. It's just that the the

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time ain't ripe here. You'll need it here. But Colonel ill, Jim,

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you're getting treated riot. Yeah all you want to eat? Well, yes,

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nice clothes. You live here in the house. You got

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a comfortable bed and linen, just like me. You know, Jim,

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you must be the only black sleeve in the world

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who sleeps with bed sheets. But colonel right now, that's something, Jim,

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that's something m.

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Speaker 2: My days went by, and I was getting no closer

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to freedom. The colonel was thriving MM with me to

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keep his records and watch his money.

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Speaker 4: MM.

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Speaker 2: He was becoming wealth here by the month. And I

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still kept asking.

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Speaker 4: Alright, you, I'm gonna call your bluff bluff. What do

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you have if I set you free?

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Speaker 2: Well, I I'll have my freedom. We're free to do

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what starve.

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Speaker 4: You know I've gone no how you get there, I

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I can work my way. It will be kidnapped by

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bounty hutters.

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Speaker 2: I'll have my paper. They'll laugh in your face and

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tell 'em up.

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Speaker 4: They'll say you was a runaway slave in some Louisiana, Mississippi,

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cotton platter work you to death, and his fields. Well,

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you still wanna be free? For the very first time,

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I felt fear crawling through me.

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Speaker 2: What was this?

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Speaker 4: Mm?

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Speaker 2: But I afraid, afraid to be free? But maybe it

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wasn't fear that there were some very real advantages to

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to my present condition. I he was right.

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Speaker 4: I had enough to eat at a cop a comfortable home,

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and the work it it wasn't at all difficult. And

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there there was a wonderful collection of books, and.

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Speaker 2: And so I thought of the North and freedom, and

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it suddenly seemed so far away. And then I heard

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that sound into a slave. It's the most frightening and

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melancholy sound in the world. It was a coffle, a

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gang of slaves being marched along the road, an endless

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caravan which grows larger and smaller as some are bought.

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Some are so along the winding road of slavery that

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snakes through the South. I looked at the faces of dull,

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staring eyes, the hopelessness, the resignation, and of course the

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ugly red wealth.

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Speaker 4: Whipp Wow, colonel, all things this year, Oh, can't really complain,

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mister McLure.

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Speaker 2: Got some prize merchandise? He no, not this time. Anything

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you want to sell? Nothing?

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Speaker 4: Really, nothing at all. Tell me, mister McLure, what's the

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go and read for a sleeve? Who can read and write?

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Speaker 2: You'd have to pay me take in it? Got any good? Field?

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Has no non despair?

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Speaker 4: You never be worth her weight in gold? Well, colonel,

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see you next time around, Tom, Tom, get him going.

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Everybody else, let's go, let's gold.

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Speaker 2: Oh there you, but for the grace go you.

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Speaker 4: All it would take to make it happen would be

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for you to be kidnapped by an unscrupulous body out

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uh and there are plenty of those. Well, but I'm

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not free. Who's free? What's this freedom you talk about

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so much? It's the freedom to starve and to freeze, Jim.

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You just don't know how lucky you are.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I didn't. It was the very first time that

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kind of thought had ever stolen inside my head. We

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keep talking about being free, But if we were, where

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would we go? What could we do? What kind of

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work would I find to do? Freedom? It had always

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been a word that thrilled me. Now it frightened me.

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But one day something frightened me even more.

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Speaker 4: Jim, Yes, sir, you didn't give Mr Darcy any meat.

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Mir dar don't stand there looking like a coldel. Mr

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Darcy isn't here who you were saying, Jim?

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Speaker 2: Anytime?

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Speaker 4: Mister Darcy shitting at the table, big his life, Colonel.

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Mr Darcy's dead here was you lost your mind? What

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a little bit of mind you ever had?

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Speaker 2: You lost your mind? Jim?

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Speaker 4: What what what am I doing here in bed? You're

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you're sick? Kind of you fainted? M I I I

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feel hot and dizzy. I can't move my whole right side. Jim, wa,

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what's the matter with me?

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Speaker 6: You?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 2: I I looked it up in the book. You you

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have what they call a stroke, something something happens to

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the blood. It doesn't flow freely, freely, freely. What happens?

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Speaker 4: Sometimes you get better and sometimes you you don't. Jim

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right right into Santa Lucilla. Bring back the doctor, Colonel.

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The doctor can't help He's gonna help me.

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Speaker 2: He's a doctor. I read in the books that there's

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nothing anyone can do, or what do you know about it?

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I've read as much as any doctor.

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Speaker 4: And I tell you'll, Jim, you go get me that

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doctor I'll tell you what I'll do.

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Speaker 2: I'll sign the paper paper that sets you free. Now,

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how's that here?

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Speaker 4: But bring in some paper and a pen and ink,

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and while you're going, I'll write the document.

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Speaker 2: You you hurt, Jim, you hurry. I galloped all the

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way to Santa Lucia and all the way back with

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the doctor, and we returned too late. He was dead.

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The colonel had died. And there was a sheet of

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paper clutched in his hand, but it was blank, not

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a single word had been written in it.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We're now surely a state

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of our dearly.

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Speaker 7: Beloved and recently departed friend, Colonel Benjamin Borders. And to

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begin with, we got us as prime a stock, a

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living merchandise as there is in the entire state.

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Speaker 2: I begin with Jim here, how old are you?

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Speaker 6: Boy?

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Speaker 4: It cats got his tongue, but he's a well trained,

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hard worker.

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Speaker 2: Use him in the house, in the field. Look at

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them muscles.

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Speaker 7: Now, well somebody opened a bidden at four hundred.

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Speaker 2: Dollars, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Well, hell is, mister mccare, sir.

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Speaker 4: Is ain't got time to waste with nicholing dimes bidden.

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I know what is worth and what I can get,

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and I'm a busy man.

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Speaker 2: I got some fifty.

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Speaker 7: Do I hear another bed, another bed? Well, then you

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got yourself a bargain there, mister McClure.

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Speaker 2: Oh my boy. Just down the road, I could see them,

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a coffer of poor, wretched, terrified slaves in the coffer.

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In a few moments I would be one of them. Yes,

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I had always been a slave from the moment of

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my birth. But this would be a kind of slavery

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I had never known before. This would be the naked

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and violent slavery I had dreamed of in my nightmares.

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And suddenly I was no longer afraid of freedom. The

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colonel's horse, Jupiter was standing nearby, another piece of flesh

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like me, waiting to be sold to the highest bidder,

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but a superb piece of flesh, the fastest in the county.

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Before anyone could realize what was taking place, I was

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on his back.

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Speaker 4: I'm like another land before the running for freedom.

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Speaker 2: Freedom the magic word.

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Speaker 4: But where is there to run?

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Speaker 2: To the north?

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Speaker 3: The friendly north is so many thousands of miles away,

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and all around is dangerous country.

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Speaker 2: And even more dangerous men freedom.

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Speaker 3: It's a long way off, but the longest journey always

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starts with the very first determined step. I shall return

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shortly with Act three. He's an extremely complex young man.

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His name is Jim, that's all, just Jim. Black slaves

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had no family names y.

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Speaker 2: Actually they had no family. In reality, they were nobody.

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Speaker 3: They were nobody until they called attention to themselves, and

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they could only do that by breaking the established pattern

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of their lives. And Jim is doing that right now.

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He has just escaped. I see nobody caught him.

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Speaker 4: Sheriff, mister McClure, he does have the fastest horse in

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all the text. He's my property.

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Speaker 2: I paid for him. I expect you to return him

474
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,039
to me. Oh, we'll get him.

475
00:29:30,079 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 4: Why ain't you organizing the posse to write him down?

476
00:29:32,559 --> 00:29:36,160
Why help me, reasonable, mister McClure. I'm gonna departize a

477
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,160
few good trackers and they'll manage to come out with

478
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,240
a want action. I'm entitled to the protection of the law.

479
00:29:43,119 --> 00:29:45,079
I've never seen a finer piece of flesh in all

480
00:29:45,119 --> 00:29:46,400
the years I'm doing business.

481
00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 2: I gotta get him back. Trado.

482
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:59,359
Speaker 4: This with freedom, it's terrible wings where nothing could live

483
00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:02,400
with a cruel son, the pride of the body by dead,

484
00:30:03,119 --> 00:30:06,200
and a cold, lifeless moon froze the blood at night,

485
00:30:07,039 --> 00:30:12,519
the food, the water, And one morning Jupiter disappeared.

486
00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 2: I I don't know. I I awoke and my horse

487
00:30:16,759 --> 00:30:20,519
was gone, and I knew that I was gone too.

488
00:30:22,039 --> 00:30:24,759
I was too weak to walk or even to worry.

489
00:30:24,839 --> 00:30:27,079
I so I I lay on the ground to wait,

490
00:30:27,839 --> 00:30:35,000
to wait for freedom. And suddenly she was there, sitting

491
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:35,880
on her horse.

492
00:30:37,119 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 4: A woman, a white woman, pointing a rifle at me,

493
00:30:41,599 --> 00:30:44,359
and two men black like me, slaves like me, were

494
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:44,680
with her.

495
00:30:45,119 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 6: Who are you, boy? What are you doing here?

496
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,519
Speaker 2: Where are you bound for freedom? Freedom?

497
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:54,559
Speaker 4: What was that?

498
00:30:55,279 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 6: What are you saying?

499
00:30:57,079 --> 00:30:59,799
Speaker 2: Let me dwell in Freedom's house.

500
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:06,279
Speaker 5: You look like a runaway to me. Nose Harry, get

501
00:31:06,359 --> 00:31:08,880
him up on his feet. We'll take him home and

502
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,240
find out who he belongs to. O.

503
00:31:17,079 --> 00:31:21,119
Speaker 4: Let me dwell in Freedom's house and let them call

504
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,559
me Freedom's child.

505
00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 6: All right, now, that'll be enough.

506
00:31:24,839 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 2: Of that solitude.

507
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:26,759
Speaker 4: And um.

508
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 2: If they can't arch him my pillar, they make up besser.

509
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,279
Speaker 4: They call it peace, but there's no peace, no peace

510
00:31:34,359 --> 00:31:35,039
in the pleasant.

511
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 2: Alright.

512
00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 5: You're crazy, but you're smart enough to eat I see

513
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,119
you cleaned up that pat.

514
00:31:42,599 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 2: I I I kept the books. I I did the accounts.

515
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,039
I I er I wrote for letters. I I paid

516
00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:47,480
the bills.

517
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 6: You're crazy in the head from the sun.

518
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 2: Let me keep your books.

519
00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 1: Now, what are you saying?

520
00:31:53,359 --> 00:31:55,799
Speaker 4: Let me teach your children Latin and gramma and and

521
00:31:56,079 --> 00:31:59,359
al and algebra. Oh I I I don't want him

522
00:31:59,359 --> 00:32:01,319
to catch me. He'll hurt me down.

523
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,559
Speaker 6: Who who's gonna hunt you down?

524
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,599
Speaker 2: He has a whip. He holds a whip in one

525
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,319
hand and a chain in the other. Save me, save

526
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,519
me from him. I'll make you rich.

527
00:32:12,799 --> 00:32:13,119
Speaker 6: Witch.

528
00:32:17,559 --> 00:32:21,759
Speaker 2: There was a broiling sun, the freezing moon, and the

529
00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:26,839
black whale drowning in a sea of desert sand. And

530
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,759
then and then the sun set, and the moon went down,

531
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,720
and the black whale suddenly became a black man, and

532
00:32:36,839 --> 00:32:38,839
he was lying on a pile of straw, and the

533
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,680
small dark hunt and the white woman was standing there

534
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,880
looking down at him. Well, boy, you look a lot

535
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,799
better gas him.

536
00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:52,839
Speaker 6: You sound a lot better too.

537
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,359
Speaker 5: Whit you learn how to talk like like a Yankee gentleman?

538
00:32:57,839 --> 00:33:00,519
Speaker 2: Please, Missy I I I don't mean no harm.

539
00:33:01,759 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 6: Yes, Henry, what.

540
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,039
Speaker 2: Do you want, Miss Jenny?

541
00:33:04,079 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 4: May, I'm a gentleman to see you up to the

542
00:33:05,799 --> 00:33:06,880
house to see me.

543
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 2: What about it's mister McClure, ma'am. Oh, mister McClure.

544
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 6: So you're running away from mister McClure. Yes, ma'am, I

545
00:33:19,079 --> 00:33:20,200
knew you was a runaway.

546
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 5: I knew it.

547
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,319
Speaker 4: Please, ma'am, don't don't give me up to mister McLure.

548
00:33:25,759 --> 00:33:32,759
And why shouldn't I Please please outdie hide me. I'm

549
00:33:32,799 --> 00:33:35,200
not just an ordinary I feel hander. I'll work for

550
00:33:35,279 --> 00:33:38,039
you the way I did for Colonel Boorters. Don't turn

551
00:33:38,119 --> 00:33:39,279
me over to mister McLure.

552
00:33:39,319 --> 00:33:40,119
Speaker 6: Oh did mister.

553
00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 5: McClure pay for you, Well, yes, ma'am, then he's your master.

554
00:33:46,079 --> 00:33:49,000
And it's my beauty as a law abiden woman, as

555
00:33:49,039 --> 00:33:52,440
a religious woman, to return you to your legal rightful owner.

556
00:33:53,039 --> 00:33:57,039
Speaker 2: You call yourself a law a biden religious woman, But

557
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,680
what the laws do you falla what religion to you?

558
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,200
Will be just if I right to treat me like

559
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,319
an animal? Look at me, Look at me, You're ignorant,

560
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:06,000
arrogant woman.

561
00:34:06,039 --> 00:34:08,559
Speaker 4: I'm a man, a man like your husband, like your father,

562
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,800
like your son, of the same heart, the same blood.

563
00:34:11,599 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 2: The same song. Henry shut his mouth, and as much says,

564
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,679
you have done it to the least of my brethren,

565
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:17,639
you have done it unto me.

566
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,199
Speaker 6: I said, shut his breath and a Nie.

567
00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 5: Won't Henry, don't you dare let him leave the top?

568
00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:31,599
Speaker 2: Henry, No, No, I knows what you're going to ask me.

569
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,840
Just do that. So I got to escape. Miss Jennis,

570
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,239
give me live. You'll kill me, mister Clark, kill me.

571
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:46,039
You bet off Daide, will bet off Daid. No, but

572
00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:48,880
better off free. Don't you worry a not anybody boy?

573
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,119
You'll be free soon enough.

574
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, mister mccluur born and Miss Thompson gotta run

575
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:01,880
down a young buck.

576
00:35:02,039 --> 00:35:03,199
Speaker 2: Lost him about a week ago.

577
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 4: Got a tall no fat on him, but good muscles

578
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000
trailed him up into this vicinity. Was wondering if you

579
00:35:10,119 --> 00:35:10,719
might have seen.

580
00:35:10,639 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 6: Him a runaway. I no, I haven't heard anything.

581
00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:20,159
Speaker 4: Well, I'm much obliged to you, Miss Thompson.

582
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,679
Speaker 6: I I hope you find him.

583
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 2: Oh, I'll find him.

584
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 4: I have to spend every penny I've gotten the rest

585
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:28,440
of my life.

586
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 2: I'll find him. I ought to have you hanged better

587
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,199
burned as a witch. Why do you say that, man?

588
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,559
Why because you bewitched me.

589
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:44,679
Speaker 6: You have a strange power.

590
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,679
Speaker 5: Somehow you prevented me from telling mister McClay your hair.

591
00:35:48,639 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 2: On my property? What did you do to me? I

592
00:35:51,599 --> 00:35:52,119
did nothing.

593
00:35:52,679 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 6: I was ready to.

594
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 5: Tell him you were being kept here, and and the

595
00:35:56,159 --> 00:35:57,599
words refused to come out.

596
00:35:59,039 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 6: You cast a no.

597
00:36:01,559 --> 00:36:04,119
Speaker 2: You say you're a law abiding woman, a religious woman.

598
00:36:04,199 --> 00:36:06,679
Speaker 6: And I've been on all my life until today.

599
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 2: That's why you saved me from slavery. It's true.

600
00:36:11,559 --> 00:36:15,039
Speaker 4: Something set you save him, deliver him from slavery.

601
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 5: Oh oh whatever, however, that's what I've done.

602
00:36:29,679 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 6: Well, now you're free, Get going.

603
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 2: What did you say?

604
00:36:39,039 --> 00:36:39,760
Speaker 6: You're free?

605
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 2: Go go where?

606
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 6: Go to your freedom.

607
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 2: We'll go on and get No, don't don't don't make

608
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,280
me go out there. You can go into that desert.

609
00:36:55,119 --> 00:36:56,199
Speaker 5: You wanna be free?

610
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 2: Don't you let me? Let me stay here with you.

611
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:06,679
Speaker 6: I I'll make Oh shut up, Henry, he can still

612
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:07,079
help you.

613
00:37:07,159 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 2: In the fields.

614
00:37:08,679 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 6: We'll keep him.

615
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 2: Please believe me, ma'am.

616
00:37:11,119 --> 00:37:13,199
Speaker 5: Get him another shirt and a hat and set him

617
00:37:13,199 --> 00:37:14,559
to powering gorse of missus.

618
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,079
Speaker 2: Jenny man and you mind him me?

619
00:37:16,199 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 3: Now, what's your name?

620
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 2: See he's just saying the truth. Jim, can you read?

621
00:37:25,079 --> 00:37:28,119
And writes do you know all them other things? Yes,

622
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,360
it's the truth. He can go away, go away from here.

623
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,840
What are you talking about? You gotta go to freedom? Freedom?

624
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,679
What do you know about it? Eh? And there's one thing.

625
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,840
You're free now, Ye're free. You ain't in the dark

626
00:37:46,039 --> 00:37:49,159
like all the rest of us. You read, you write,

627
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,800
you can make things, you can talk.

628
00:37:52,599 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 8: You can't stay here.

629
00:37:54,039 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 2: Die here for nothing. I don't want to go. I'm afraid.

630
00:37:57,559 --> 00:37:58,320
What good are you?

631
00:37:59,440 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 6: Go?

632
00:38:00,199 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: Be?

633
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 2: Somebody?

634
00:38:01,159 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 4: Git No, not now, Miss mclaus. Out there, mister mccure, always.

635
00:38:06,039 --> 00:38:06,599
Speaker 2: Be out there.

636
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 4: Look, I'll I'll get a bed with meat and bread

637
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:12,079
and water and the horse.

638
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 2: Come with me, entry and free, not Yit maybe neighver,

639
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:25,320
but you you get. I need more than food and

640
00:38:26,199 --> 00:38:31,000
water the horse for my freedom, Henry. I need that rifle.

641
00:38:37,079 --> 00:38:41,000
It was a wild, arid wilderness, and I didn't know

642
00:38:41,079 --> 00:38:43,760
where it ended, but I knew that I must keep

643
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,199
going north. I was no longer running to freedom. I

644
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,239
had freedom.

645
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:54,519
Speaker 4: I was a free man sitting a free people. I

646
00:38:54,639 --> 00:38:58,519
was busy with my thoughts, so I didn't see him there, waiting,

647
00:38:59,519 --> 00:39:00,760
sitting on his horse with a.

648
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 2: Gun in his hand. And I was almost upon him

649
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:06,079
all right.

650
00:39:06,079 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 4: Boy, I don't that horse because I'm gonna whip you

651
00:39:09,079 --> 00:39:11,079
to within one half inch of your life.

652
00:39:11,639 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 2: You're not gonna whip anybody off the horse. No, No,

653
00:39:15,679 --> 00:39:16,199
I warn you.

654
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:17,519
Speaker 4: Don't you reach for that rifle.

655
00:39:17,559 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 2: Boy, you hear me. I heard you. I can pull

656
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,800
this trigger before you could even level that gun. You can,

657
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,719
but you won't. Don't try me. What good am I

658
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:25,960
to you?

659
00:39:26,119 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 1: Dad?

660
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 4: Take your hands off that rifle. I'll blow your head off.

661
00:39:29,079 --> 00:39:31,840
You won't blow the head off of seven hundred and fifty.

662
00:39:31,639 --> 00:39:32,760
Speaker 2: Dollars up your wife.

663
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 4: You better shoot me now quick, while you still have

664
00:39:35,079 --> 00:39:35,480
the chance.

665
00:39:35,519 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 2: You can't know it. You just can't believe I dare

666
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,079
to kill you, and you won't. You though, you'll be

667
00:39:41,119 --> 00:39:43,400
a hundred down like an animal, But I am an animal.

668
00:39:44,039 --> 00:39:46,920
You can't believe what you'll see a batman. But there's

669
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,519
the point of gun at you. You ain't stupid.

670
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 4: You know you can't get away.

671
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,679
Speaker 2: But it has to begin somewhere sometime with somebody.

672
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 3: Just put the gun away.

673
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 2: You're only making it worse. No, get off that horse,

674
00:40:04,159 --> 00:40:08,800
Goodbye to you, mister mclare. It had to begin somewhere

675
00:40:09,519 --> 00:40:12,239
sometime with somebody.

676
00:40:19,199 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 3: And where Jim went, and whether or not he survived

677
00:40:23,079 --> 00:40:27,119
the hardships and the dangers of the wilderness must remain

678
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:31,280
a mystery. And we tell this story during these times

679
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,079
when our minds are concerned with the birth of freedom

680
00:40:34,599 --> 00:40:38,159
in our country, to take the measure of how far

681
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:43,719
we have come, and perhaps to consider how far we

682
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:44,599
had yet to go.

683
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,440
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684
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as a prison. Ignorance is the sea, and poverty is

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a seed, and superstition is a sea, and hatred is

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a sea. And until away is found for all men

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to emerge from these cruel seas.

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Speaker 2: All of us are in danger of drowning.

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Speaker 3: Our cast included Brock Peters, Brett Morrison, Lynn Hamilton, Marvin Miller,

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and Ken Lynch. The entire production was under the direction

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of Hymon Brown. When you give blood, do you get another.

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Speaker 9: Birthday party, another wading anniversary, Another day at the beach,

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another walk across a field, another night under the stars.

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Speaker 2: When you give blood? Do you get another holiday with

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the family.

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Speaker 10: Another drive after supper, another talk with a friend, another laugh,

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another cry, another hall, another chance. This is David Steinberg

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for the American Red Cross.

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Speaker 2: Please give blood. This is E. G.

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Speaker 3: Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for

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another adventure in the macabre.

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Speaker 11: Until next time, Pleasant dreams, Allow.

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Speaker 4: News all the time, News Radio, n WWJ, Detroit.

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Speaker 2: PBS News. I'm Betsy Rosenberg.

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Speaker 6: Surrender or die.

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Speaker 12: That's the message being sent to secret police in Romania

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still shooting its soldiers. The warning comes from the army,

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now loyal to the new provisional government, which replaced executed

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dictator Nikolai Chaucescu. As the BBC's Marked Brain reports from Bucharest,

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security police have been told they'll meet the same fate

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as their fallen leader if they don't give up soon.

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Speaker 8: Veradic attacks have been continuing around the country, and this

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statement amount the military.

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Speaker 2: Tribunals makes clear that the loss of life

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Speaker 3: Is continuing and material destruction, and what the army is

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doing is giving those who are still fighting back